.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 234 159
Rank change year-on-year -86 -75 -43
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 331 724 958
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.22% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.21% 5.84% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 305 507 892
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,354 12,397 12,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.52% 20.89% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,776 7,492 10,052
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £86,750 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 29 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +18 133 £78,750 +12.50% 53
North of England -32 77 £55,000 - 43
South East -50 47 £57,500 +9.52% 75
North West +10 46 £55,000 -4.35% 23
Midlands -13 30 £66,000 +38.95% 25
South West +14 26 £50,000 -16.67% 14
Yorkshire -36 23 £40,000 -20.00% 12
East Midlands -4 20 £72,500 +52.63% 13
East of England -10 13 £60,000 +20.00% 25
West Midlands +15 10 £60,000 +31.15% 11
North East -1 8 £50,000 +11.11% 8
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.02%) IIS
2 7 (2.11%) CMS
3 6 (1.81%) Confluence
4 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.30%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 227 (68.58%) Azure
2 97 (29.31%) AWS
3 50 (15.11%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (12.08%) Serverless
5 29 (8.76%) GitHub
6 23 (6.95%) Azure Service Bus
7 20 (6.04%) Azure Functions
8 18 (5.44%) Power Platform
9 17 (5.14%) SaaS
10 15 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.63%) GCP
13 11 (3.32%) Azure App Service
13 11 (3.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (3.32%) Power Automate
14 10 (3.02%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.72%) Amazon S3
16 8 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (2.42%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.51%) Internet
2 2 (0.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (36.25%) SQL Server
2 55 (16.62%) MongoDB
3 49 (14.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (9.67%) NoSQL
5 25 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.23%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.93%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.93%) MySQL
9 10 (3.02%) Power BI
9 10 (3.02%) Redis
10 8 (2.42%) NonStop SQL
11 6 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.21%) Data Hub
12 4 (1.21%) SQL CLR
12 4 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.91%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.30%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 61 (18.43%) Git
2 15 (4.53%) JIRA
3 13 (3.93%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.11%) GitLab
5 6 (1.81%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.81%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.51%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.51%) NUnit
7 4 (1.21%) MSTest
7 4 (1.21%) Postman
7 4 (1.21%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.91%) JMeter
8 3 (0.91%) Selenium
9 2 (0.60%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.60%) Vite
10 1 (0.30%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (0.30%) Sourcetree
General
1 50 (15.11%) Finance
2 44 (13.29%) Social Skills
3 17 (5.14%) Law
4 15 (4.53%) Retail
5 12 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.32%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.72%) Back Office
8 9 (2.72%) Legal
9 8 (2.42%) Advertising
9 8 (2.42%) Games
10 7 (2.11%) Banking
11 6 (1.81%) Front Office
12 4 (1.21%) Marketing
13 3 (0.91%) Automotive
13 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.30%) Electronics
15 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 242 (73.11%) Developer
2 131 (39.58%) .NET Developer
3 76 (22.96%) Senior
4 56 (16.92%) C# Developer
5 54 (16.31%) Senior Developer
6 52 (15.71%) Software Developer
7 46 (13.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (10.88%) Software Engineer
9 31 (9.37%) Lead
10 24 (7.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 24 (7.25%) Senior .NET Developer
10 24 (7.25%) Senior C# Developer
11 20 (6.04%) .NET Software Engineer
12 18 (5.44%) Lead Developer
13 17 (5.14%) C# .NET Developer
14 16 (4.83%) React Developer
15 15 (4.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 14 (4.23%) C# Software Developer
17 11 (3.32%) Azure Developer
17 11 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (100.00%) .NET
2 129 (38.97%) ASP.NET
3 107 (32.33%) React
4 104 (31.42%) AngularJS
5 95 (28.70%) .NET Framework
6 80 (24.17%) HTML
7 78 (23.56%) RESTful
8 74 (22.36%) Entity Framework
9 68 (20.54%) CSS
10 61 (18.43%) ASP.NET MVC
11 60 (18.13%) ASP.NET Web API
12 43 (12.99%) Blazor
12 43 (12.99%) Vue
13 40 (12.08%) HTML5
14 38 (11.48%) Node.js
15 33 (9.97%) ASP.NET Core
16 26 (7.85%) REST
17 22 (6.65%) CSS3
18 20 (6.04%) LINQ
19 14 (4.23%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.93%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.11%) Digital TV
7 6 (1.81%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.81%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.81%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.51%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.51%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.21%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.91%) Derivative
10 3 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.81%) Windows
2 5 (1.51%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (46.83%) Agile
2 141 (42.60%) Full-Stack Development
3 125 (37.76%) Microservices
4 119 (35.95%) CI/CD
5 101 (30.51%) DevOps
6 93 (28.10%) Software Engineering
7 82 (24.77%) MVC
8 58 (17.52%) Clean Code
9 51 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (15.11%) Scrum
11 49 (14.80%) Containerisation
12 48 (14.50%) TDD
13 45 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (11.48%) Mentoring
15 34 (10.27%) SDLC
16 31 (9.37%) BDD
17 30 (9.06%) Kanban
18 29 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
19 28 (8.46%) Unit Testing
20 26 (7.85%) AI
Programming Languages
1 296 (89.43%) C#
2 135 (40.79%) JavaScript
2 135 (40.79%) SQL
3 74 (22.36%) TypeScript
4 34 (10.27%) Python
5 13 (3.93%) Rust
6 11 (3.32%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.81%) Go
7 6 (1.81%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.51%) Java
9 4 (1.21%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.91%) Erlang
11 2 (0.60%) Bicep
11 2 (0.60%) PHP
11 2 (0.60%) XAML
12 1 (0.30%) Bash
12 1 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (12.08%) Degree
2 15 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.42%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (2.11%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.51%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.74%) QA
2 10 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.11%) WCAG
4 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 75 (22.66%) Docker
2 4 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (12.69%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.06%) Terraform
3 2 (0.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 112 (33.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.11%) Facebook
2 7 (2.11%) YouTube
3 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.21%) VMware
4 3 (0.91%) Databricks
4 3 (0.91%) Google
4 3 (0.91%) Oracle
5 2 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.30%) IBM
6 1 (0.30%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.30%) IONA
6 1 (0.30%) New Relic
6 1 (0.30%) Okta
6 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow